Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-30
TIE WEATHER UNFAvoRABLE.


race. The Volunteer lies over nesr the
Atlantic club house. Goth vessels are
trying 10 get down the bay on the light
breeze. They have every sail spread
The Thistle has always done her best
work in light winds and there is small
chance of there being any more than q
light wind to-day. There is considerable
betting on the race, but it is governed by
patriotism IL almost all cases, the ODDS
ranging all the way frontier to nine down
to two to one in favor OF the Volunteer.
PREPARING TO START.
SANDY Hook, Sept. 81, I0:4O @. NJ
The haze has cleared sway and the This
lie and Volunteer are nov to the weather
side OF the starting line preparing to
start. There are over 200 yachts snd
steamboats, ABOUT them
FORT WADswORTH, Sept. ~, 1922 ..
m.-fhe preparatory signal to get ready
has just been fred.
THE START.
FORT WADswoRTH, Sept. 1.-THE
Thistle crossed the line st 1885 and the
Volunteer one minute later.
THE RACE IN DETAIL.
NEW YORK, Sept 27.-The Scotch cut
ter Thistle and the American sloop Vol.
uateer have net In the first 1887 contest
for Americas cup, and the Volunteer beat
the foreigner so badly that the latter's
most enthusiastic champions have only
to say that something intxpliCable is the
matter with the Thistle. II Was q great
day. The people who went down on the
three hundred steamships, river steam
boats, tugs, steam yachts, sailing yachts,
and other craft, numbered $4,000
and the scene presented By the heterOge-
neous mass Of crafts before and sitter the
STAR cannot be described. They covered
an area Of fifty or more acres on the water.
and they kept up noise throughout the
race tina; startled the people who came 20
see the event. ItW was an inCessgnt gun
firing, steam WhiStling and cheering That
Iiaspircd the widest kind OF enthusiasm.
but sadly intertered with the duties G:
the officials WHO had business TO attend to
This great 1otills YVES promptly at
the scene OF the start and they covered
the ground Of Owls Head in 8 way inst
made doubt in the minds Of many that
q good start would be made. From early
morning there was no sign of q brceZs
and dirty haze hung over the water in
dlc2tlye ola continuous thick atmosphere,
With favorable surrounding the race
would have been started 81 1880 this
morning but g. that hour there
WAS not air enough 30 blow
match out, and the judges waited 10
start the racers until there should appear
q chance of getting the boats over the
course in the prescribed seven hours.
rhst appearance did not come until noon.
At That time e ripple came over the water
from The south and east, Snd the signal
was given to clear the course. The
Thistle and Volunteer had come
out from their respective anchorage and
were loafng about north of the
line that had been formed between the
EiectEs and buoy eighteen, opposite Owls
Head on Long Isisnd. The Thistle moved
abCuE in very lively fashion in the light
air. She appeared to take much pleas
ufe IN running past snd around the Vol
unteer, which she did several times and
every time met with loud applause from
spectators all of whom
seemed confident and willing she should
win the first race. At 1920 the Electra
fired the notice gun end ct 80 the
start. After the latter the yachts had five
minutes to cross the line. If either had
taken longer than five minutes her time
OF start would have been registered at
the expiration of the FIVE minutes.
The boats crossed as follows:
Thistle l2nrs, S3m, So. Volunteer
12hrs., SAM, SIS. The Thistle not onlv
had the nearer position when the order TO
start was given, but she also went
tarough the water faster. She got over
the line one minute ard fits two seconds
~ inhk ,,N,lA
was then blowing from south southeast, |
@nd the yachts had to sail close
on the wind for the first mark, buoy 10. |
on the southwest spot, which bore south |
by west eight and one-half miles. AWAY
they went, over or the pert tack snd st |
once the Volunteer began to overhaul the |
Fh1atie. The first tack was in toward /
Cation, Staten Island, snd on that tack
OF fifteen minutes or less the Volunteer !
showed her superiority over the Thistle |
thkr i>ft no doubt Of the result The |.
volunteer went By the cutter IS though |
the latter was anchored, and she stayed /
IN front TO the end, The Thistle was
more than little bothered by the ex-
cnrsion boats on that first t.ck. TIE
steamer crossed her bows and gave her
nach sWash. but sitter that the steamers |
h~be ~ tHS NO4uQES6F, the I9SC -, (
ana throughout the rest Of ths
day enc suffered three times
at lesst as much as the Thistle did. From ,
the way they cSed up the water and
smut out The wind il WAS no longer arace,
ous procession. TIE wind varied in
locality snd strength. It shifted betwet n
southeasa and southwest, and some
,inasA -nns boat had it when the
other did not. The result
was most decided victory for the
sloop. Beating, stretching
and running with free sheets, the VoIun-
.eer outsailed the Thistle. On the run
home she lost ground, largely on account
of the wsy the accompanying craft blank
cited her. The first buoy 10 WAS reached
IN 8 beat, buoy Sd was fetched on q
stretch, as was the Sandy Hook
light ship, the outer mark from
ight ship back 10 buoy 10 wss q beam
wind, and from there home to buoy Is,
IF Fort Wadsworth, i. was clear run
before the wind with spinnakrs set, the
otal distance thirty-eight statute milep.
everywhere, except on the run with spin
takers, where the excursion boats
lid SO much to keep the wind
rom her, the Volunteer out sailed
Ter antagonist, A further description